MPV media player (FFmpeg version). How to Install the Latest MPV Media Player in Ubuntu 16.04. MPV is a Ubuntu Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
Some of the most interesting features are:
- Streamlined CLI options – MPlayer’s options parser was improved to behave more like other CLI programs, and many option names and semantics were reworked to make them more intuitive and memorable.
- On Screen Controller – While mpv has no official GUI, it has a small controller that is triggered by mouse movement.
- High quality video output – mpv has a OpenGL based video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, and more.
- GPU video decoding – mpv leverages the FFmpeg hwaccel APIs to support VDPAU, VAAPI, DXVA2, VDA and VideoToolbox video decode acceleration.
MPV 0.20.0
MPV 0.20.0 is the latest release of the MPV video player. The release is not a major update and only brings a couple of new options and commands
Added
- aspect: add –video-unscaled=downscale-big
- player: add –image-display-duration option to control duration of image display (#3425)
- vo_opengl: angle: new flag (dcomposition) to control DirectComposition
Fixes and Minor Enhancements
- af_lavrresample: fix error if resampler could not be recreated
- audio: avoid missed wakeups with ab-loops
- audio: do not apply –audio-channels if spdif passthrough is in use (#3445)
- cache: don’t use a backbuffer if the cache is as large as the file
- command: prevent O(n^2) behaviour for playlist property
- demux: close underlying stream if it’s fully read anyway (#3456)
- demux: fix undefined behavior with ogg metadata update (#3451)
- player: make looping slightly more seamless
- player: refresh very low framerate video on filter changes (#3435)
- stream_memory: disable stream cache
- vf_rotate: allow arbitrary rotation (#3434)
- vo: be more trusting to estimated display FPS (#3433)
- w32_common: use hooks to detect parent window resize
- x11: work around mutter fullscreen issue (#2072)
Install MPV Media Player
Run the following commands in Terminal to install MPV Media Player on Ubuntu Linux:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/mpv-tests
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mpv
Once installed, open the MPV media player from Ubuntu Dash. Note that you won’t find any menu options. Simply drop the media file into the player window to play.
Uninstall MPV from Ubuntu
If you don’t want to use it anymore and wish to uninstall and remove the MPV media player from Ubuntu Systems, run the following commands:
sudo apt remove mpv
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get update